April, 2011

In Part 3 of my video lecture series exploring the Standard Template Library's implementation, I explain how our powerful correctness checks in debug mode work. In VC10, they're controlled by the macro _ITERATOR_DEBUG_LEVEL, which supersedes VC8 and VC9...

Greetings, I’m Raman Sharma , Program Manager with the Visual C++ team . As part of the April Security Bulletin Release , Microsoft released security bulletin MS11-025 . Since then, we became aware of some issues with this bulletin that impact...

Hi, I’m Charles Torre , Sr. Technographer with Channel 9 . I recently interviewed Boris Jabes , a fun Visual C++ Program Manager guy to talk to. After a brief discussion of IntelliSense in VC++ –Boris has the distinction of being the first...

Hi, my name is Li Shao . I am a Software Design Engineer in Test in C++ team. In VS2010, C++ has accomplished the migration of VCBuild to MSBuild based project and Build system. We have received very warm acceptance and overall customer satisfaction is...

The 4th part of this series digs into rvalue references , perfect forwarding and associative containers . Advanced STL covers the gory details of the STL's implementation -> you will therefore need to be versed in the basics of STL, competent in...

Read in this issue : Troubleshooting Tips for IntelliSense Slowness The Concurrency Runtime and Visual C++ 2010: Lambda Expressions CMapi v1.23 (MFC classes for sending and receiving mail using Simple MAPI) Exception Boundaries: Working With Multiple...

Read in this issue : Build Related Improvement in VS2010 SP1 The Asynchronous Agents Library (Stroustrup) Famous applications built in C++ The Concurrency Runtime and Visual C++ 2010: Automatic Type Deduction _ITERATOR_DEBUG_LEVEL -...

This is the third and last part of our Channel 9 interviews to C++ Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs), made during a recent Summit at MS headquarters. Meet Alon Fliess (Israel) , Marius Bancila (Romania) , Bruno Boucard (France) and Jim Beveridge ...

Read in this issue : FDIS Approved. What’s Next? A Base Class for Intrusively Reference-Counted Objects in C++ “Effective C++” in the C++0x (C++11) Age The Concurrency Runtime and Visual C++ 2010: The decltype Type Specifier...

Read in this issue : Advanced STL, Part 4 Concurrency Runtime: Transporting Exceptions between Threads DirectCompute Lecture Series 101: Introduction to DirectCompute (C++ and Beyond) Adventures in Perfect Forwarding (InformIT) Ten Techniques to Reduce...

Read in this issue : [Herb Sutter] Session Announcement: C++ and the GPU… and Beyond [Kate Gregory] Application Restart and Recovery on Windows 7 [Channel 9] Boris Jabes on Game Development and Other Demons [ConcRT blog] The Concurrency Runtime and Visual...